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Hardcover volume, 24 x 15 cm, bound in quarter parchment over pale blue cloth, paper label to spine, pale blue dust jacket with a paper label, another label bound in at the end, printed on thick laid paper, untrimmed, uncut, pp. [4] blank, [2] blank/advert., [2] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint (riverside press Ltd.), [2] limitation/blank, [2] persons/blank, [1] 2-185 [3], photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker with captioned tissue guard. Title-page: The SECRET AGENT | A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS | by | JOSEPH CONRAD | LONDON | Privately Printed for Subscribers ONLY BY | T. WERNER LAURIE LTD. | 1923 || Edition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies sighed by the author; this is copy № 12. Catalogue Raisonné: Keating № 79 / p. 169. Seller’s Description: one of 1000 copies signed by the author, photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker, endpapers lightly browned, original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned with 2 small staining spots, ends a little creased, uncut and unopened, overall an excellent copy, 8vo, 1923. Contributors: Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857 – 1924) – author. Thomas Werner Laurie (British, 1866 – 1944) – publisher. Emery Walker (British, 1851 – 1933) – artist. The Riverside Press Limited (Edinburgh) – printer. First edition: [LIB-2762.2021] Joseph Conrad. The secret agent: a simple tale. — London: Methuen & Co., [1907]
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Hardcover volume, 28.7 x 24.7 cm, pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, pp. :[1-6] 7-224, 207 colour ils. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, 10 March to 4 June 2023. Title-page: SUBLIME IDEAS | — | DRAWINGS BY | GIOVANNI BATTISTA | PIRANESI | John Marciari | THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, NEW YORK | in association with | PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING || Contributors: John Marciari (American, b. 1971) – author. Giovanni Battista [Giambattista] Piranesi (Italian, 1720 – 1778) – artist.
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Hardcover volume, 35 x 26 cm, bound in pictorial paper boards with a lettered label to front cover, black lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-5] 6-787 [788], 1028 colour ils., trilingual edition (English, German, French). Title-page (red and black): LUIGI FICACCI | ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA GRAFICA, ROME | Giovanni Battista | PIRANESI | Catalogue of the Complete Etchings | Gesamtkatalog der Radierungen | Catalogue raisonné des eaux-fortes | TASCHEN || Contributors: Luigi Ficacci (Italian, b. 1954) – author. Giovanni Battista [Giambattista] Piranesi (Italian, 1720 – 1778) – artist.
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Hardcover volume, 25.3 x 19.6 cm, bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, crimson endpapers, pp.: [1-4] 5-160, ils. Title-page: THE MAN WHO MADE PARIS | PARIS | THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF | GEORGES-EUGENE HAUSSMANN | WILLET WEEKS | Photographer of | scenes of Paris today | JEAN-CLAUDE MARTIN | (in frame) LONDON / HOUSE || Contributors: Willet Weeks (American)– author. Jean-Claude Martin (French-American) – photographer. Georges Eugène Haussmann (French, 1809 – 1891) – character.
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Owner’s quarter brown cloth, 18.2 x 12.5 cm, lettered paper over cardboard; text printed on tan paper, [1, 2] (t.p.), [i] ii-viii (intro.), [1] 4-48 (text); total 28 leaves; blue and red crayon marks to text; boards and pages with blue ink stamps and inscriptions. Front board: Педагогичне Бюро Полтавського Губернського Земства. | ТВОРИ РІДНИХ ПИСЬМЕННИКІВ ДЛЯ | ЧИТАННЯ В КЛАСІ.| МАРКО ВОВЧОК. | КАРМЕЛЮК. | ПОЛТАВА. | 1917 р. || Back board: Серія складається з творів: | Квітки, Вовчка, Шевченка, Куліша, | Руданського, Левицького І, Мирного, | Франка, Грінченка, Коцюбинського. | Полтава, друкарня Амчиславського. || Title-page: Педагогичне Бюро Полтавського Губернського Земства. | МАРКО ВОВЧОК. | КАРМЕЛЮК. | ПОЛТАВА. | 1917 р. || Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Амчиславский, М. Г. (Полтава, ул. Пушкина, 40) – printer.
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Small volume, 14 x 10 cm, in tan cloth with vignette and lettering to front, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-123 [5], total 64 leaves, 10 full-page and 7 double-page two-colour woodcuts within pagination, and numerous b/w in-text vignettes by Serhiy Adamovych; translated from the Ukrainian into English by Oles Kovalenko. Print run: 11,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Олесь Iванович Коваленко (Ukrainian, 1945 – 2012) – translator from the Ukrainian into English. Сергiй Тадейович Адамович [Serhiy Adamovych] (Ukrainian, 1922 – 1998) – artist.
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Small volume, 17.2 x 13.2 cm, brown buckram with vignette and lettering to front and spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-315 [5], illustrations: portrait, frontispiece, and two vignettes by I. Gavriliuk; text on Ukrainian and Russian. A reprint of the 1874 edition. Contents: Дев’ять братiв i десята сестриця Галя, Невiльничка, Ведмiдь, Кармелюк, Совершенная курица, Королевна Я, Затейник, Похождения домашнего учителя, Воришка, Чортова пригода. Title-page: Марко Вовчок | Сказки и быль | {vignette} | КИЕВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | «ДНIПРО» | 1988 || Print run: 250,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Іван Михайлович Гаврилюк (Иван Михайлович Гаврилюк) (Ukrainian, 1939 – 2008) – artist.
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Hardcover volume 20.8 x 13.5 cm, quarter olive cloth over cardboard, diaper design with lettering to front and lettering on black label to spine; pp.: [2] blank/portrait, [1, 2] t.p./imprint, 3-331 [5], total 338 pages, linocut portrait and chapter headpieces by Volkovinskaia. Some pages spotted, about 1/3 of p. 133/134 lost. Re-printed from 6-vol. edition of Vovchok’s collected works, 1956. Title-page: МАРКО ВОВЧОК | ЖИВАЯ | ДУША | РОМАН | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЦК ЛКСМУ «МОЛОДЬ» | КИЕВ 1962 || Print run: 50,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Зінаїда Володимирівна Волковинська [Зинаида Владимировна Волковинская; Zinaïda Volkovynsʹka] (Ukrainian, 1915 – 2010) – artist.
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Owner’s quarter cloth over faux marbled paper binding, 19.8 x 15.1 cm, pp.: [1-4] 5-227 [3], total 230 pages plus frontispiece (b/w photographic portrait w/facsimile); library blue ink stamp to t.p. “Библиотека средней политехнической школы № 76 г. Харькова Октябрьского района Инв. № ___». Title-page: ДИТЯЧА БIБЛIОТЕКА УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ПИСЬМЕННИКIВ | За редакцiєю В. АРНАУТОВА та О. ПОПОВА | — | ВИБРАНI ТВОРИ | Упорядкував С. МIЗЕРНИЦЬКИЙ | Державний Науково-Методологiчний Комитет | Наркомосвiти УСРР по секциï сицiяльного | виховання дозволив до вжитку як допомiчний | посiбник в книгозбiрнях установ соцвиху | ДЕРЖАВНЕ ВИДАВНИЦТВО УКРАЇНИ | 1928 || Contents: Передмова, Викуп, Паньска воля (Горпина), Козачка, Ледащиця, Чумак, Не до пари, Тюлева баба, Кармелюк, Гайдамаки. Print run: 5,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok.
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Three 8vo volumes, 20.8 x 13.8 cm each, uniformly bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and embossed design to front and spine; v. 1: [1-4] 5-537 [3], total 540 pages plus frontispiece, two-colour woodcut portrait, by Ivan Nikolaevtsev; v. 2: [1-6] 7-537 [3], total 540 pages; v. 3: [1-6] 7-620 [4], total 624 pages. Waterstain throughout the third volume. Title-page (red and black): Марко Вовчок | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ТОМ ПЕРВЫЙ (ВТОРОЙ, ТРЕТИЙ) | {fleuron} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «ИЗВЕСТИЯ» | Москва | 1957 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): Марко Вовчок | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | В ТРЕХ | ТОМАХ | {fleuron} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «ИЗВЕСТИЯ» | Москва | 1957 || Half-title (red and black): БИБЛИОТЕКА КЛАССИКОВ | ЛИТЕРАТУР | НАРОДОВ СССР | | {fleuron} || Imprint: Вступительная статья А. Белецкого. Подготовка текста и примечания С. Машинского. Print run: 30,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Олександр Іванович Білецький [Александр Иванович Белецкий] (Ukrainian, 1884 – 1961) – author/preface. Семен Иосифович Машинский (Ukrainian, 1914-1978) – author/editing and comments. Иван Григорьевич Николаевцев (Ukrainian, 1902–1960) – artist.
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Hardcover volume, 22.5 x 19.5 cm, collated 4to, owner’s terracotta cloth with gilt-lettered black label to spine, publisher’s wrappers preserved, pp.:3 ffl, front wrapper, 3 ffl, [2] h.t./limit, [2] t.p./blank, 1-228 [2] 3 ffl, back wrapper, 3 ffl. Collation: π3 1-314 323. (130 leaves, incl. plates). Title-page (pink and black): Bonne-fille | PAR | JEAN VIOLLIS | Illustrations de | DIGNIMONT | {vignette} | A PARIS | La Collection Originale | ÉDITIONS MORNAY | 37, BOULEVARD DU MONTPARNASSE | MCMXXVI || Illustrations: 14 full-page colour plates, incl. frontispiece and endpiece, within collation but not within pagination, verso blank, and numerous head- and tailpieces and in-text stencil-coloured (au pochoir) lithography after André Dignimont. Limitation: A print run of 628 copies for sale, of which 18 on Japon Ancien, 30 on Japon Impérial, 90 on Hollande, 490 on Rives (139-628), plus 50 copies not for sale. Printed on May 12, 1926, at l’Imprimerie Kapp (Vanves), this copy is № 380. Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky, pictorial bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown, ms inscription to front ffl2 top “TH. ROJANKOWSKY | 14 VIII 30” in block letters. One of the possible transliterations of Feodor Rojankovsky's name is Theodor Rojankowsky. Contributors: Jean-Henri d'Ardenne deTizac [JeanViollis] (French, 1877 – 1932) – author. André Dignimont (French, 1891 – 1965) – artist. Frédéric Emile Kapp (French, 1851-193?) – printer. Georges Mornay (French, 1876 – 1935) et Antoinette Mornay – pubishers. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – provenance.
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Hardcover volume 36 x 27.5 cm, bound in grey cloth, gilt lettering ЛЕНИНГРАД to front board, red and black labels with gilt lettering, gilt compartments to flat spine, red endpapers with black and white border, pp.: [1-6] 7-402 [2], total 202 leaves with numerous b/w illustrations, plus frontispiece with pasted in b/w plate. Bookplate of Feodor Rojankovsky to front pastedown, ms inscription: “Дорогой Федя, дарю Вам на Ваше рождение эту книгу” signed “Ф. Рожанковский” Half-title (red on tan): ИЗДАНО В ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ | В ДНИ ВЕЛИКОЙ | ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ || Half-title verso (red on tan): ЛЕНИНГРАДСКИЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ СОВЕТ | ДЕПУТАТОВ ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ | ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОМИТЕТ | {vignette «plan»} | АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНОЕ | УПРАВЛЕНИЕ | 1943 || Title-page (red on tan) ЛЕНИНГРАД | {vignette «Admiralty»} | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ИСКУССТВО» | ЛЕНИНГРАД – 1943 – МОСКВА || Blue ink stamp to bottom right: Printed in Soviet Union. Title-page verso: РЕДАКЦИОННАЯ | КОЛЛЕГИЯ | Ответственный редактор | БАРАНОВ Н. В. | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | МОРОЗОВ М. В. | РУБАНЕНКО Б. Р. | ФОМИН И. И. | Художник издания | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | Технический редактор | АНИСИМОВ М. Н. Contents (red on tan): АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНЫЙ | ОБЗОР РАЗВИТИЯ ГОРОДА | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XVIII ВЕКЕ | С. М. ЗЕМЦОВ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XIX ВЕКЕ | А. Г. ЯЦЕВИЧ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА С 1917 ПО 1935 г. | Б. Р. РУБАНЕНКО | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН РАЗВИТИЯ | ЛЕНИНГРАДА | Н. В. БАРАНОВ | ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ | ГОРОДА || verso: {vignette} | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН ГОРОДА ЛЕНИНГРАДА. || Print run: 2,500 copies. Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). Contributors: Каменский, Валентин Александрович (Russian, 1907 – 1975) Земцов, Станислав [Исай] Маркович (1906 – ?) Яцевич, Андрей Григорьевич (Russian, 1887 – 1942) Рубаненко, Борис Рафаилович (Russian-Jewish, 1910 – 1985) Баранов, Николай Варфоломеевич (Russian, 1909 – 1989) Фомин, Игорь Иванович (Russian, 1904 – 1989)
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Oblong hardcover volume, 13.3 x 21 cm, bound in brown buckram with embossed gilt lettering to front, pp.: [1-4] 5-482 [2] errata leaf tipped-in. Title-page: СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ ПИСАТЕЛЕЙ СССР | СПРАВОЧНИК | на 1954 — 1955 годы | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «Советский писатель» | МОСКВА 1954 || On page 71, second from bottom: Варшавский Сергей Петрович, г. Ленинград, Ропшинская ул., д. 1/32, кв. 18, тел. В 3-56-00. Print run: 3,000 copies.
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Hardcover, 31 x 24 cm, blue cloth over cardboard, orange lettering to spine, pictorial front cover, embossed back cover, pp.: [1-6] 7-271 [1], approx. 700 colour illustrations. Monograph and catalogue raisonné. ISBN: 978-3-85415-570-6. Title-page (orange): CORNELIA CABUK | {O. R. Schatz as vignette} | MONOGRAFIE | und | WERK= | VERZEICHNIS | mit Textbeiträgen von | STELLA ROLLIG | DIETER KRAFT | CORNELIA CABUK | Belvedere Werkverzeichnisse, Band 7 | Stella Rollig, Christian Huemer (Hg.) || Contributors: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961) Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Cornelia Cabuk Dieter Kraft Stella Rollig Ritter Verlag (Vienna)
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Hardcover volume 28.5 x 19 cm, bound in brown wrinkled buckram with framed gilt lettering and fleurons to front and framed gilt lettering to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, green and yellow floral diaper endpapers, printed on laid paper, bottom and outer margins untrimmed. Collation: Eight unnumbered pages of text in English, incl. bibliography, plus 45 unnumbered leaves of plates (photomechanical) with captions in French. Facsimile reproduction of the published in ca. 1907-1908 ‘La grande danse macabre des vifs’, which can be loosely translated as ‘The great strange dance of life’ or ‘The great dance of death by the living’. Title-page: THE | SATYRICAL | DRAWINGS OF | MARTIN VAN MAELE | {vignette} | THE CYTHERA PRESS NEW YORK || SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAURICE FRANÇOIS ALFRED MARTIN VAN MAËLE [MARTIN VAN MAËLE] (FRENCH, 1863 – 1926) (ANONYMOUS). Sweet Seventeen. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1910. ANSON, MARGUERITE. Une Société de flagellantes. — Paris: Charles Carrington. 1902. 31 illustrations by Van Maele and A. Lambrecht. Translation of The Merry Order of St. Bridget. APULEUS, LUCIUS. Les Métamorphoses, ou l’âne d'or. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. Translation of The Golden Ass. The same Van Maele plates were probably used by the publisher for his English translation of the same work (Paris, 1904). ARETINO, PIETRO. Les Dialogues. 2 volumes. — Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre. 1927. Only the textual illustrations are by Van Maele. The other plates are by Viset. This is believed to be the Iast book that Van Maele illustrated. DESROIX, JACQUES. La Gynécocratte. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902. Translation of Gynecocracy. FRANCE, ANATOLE. Thaïs. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901. English translation. JUSANGE. PIERRE DE. La Comtesse au foulet. — Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, s.d. SACHER-MASOCH. La Vénus a la fourrure. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902. VAN MAELE, MARTIN. La Grande Danse macabre des vifs. — Paris: Charles Carrington, ca. 1907-8. VERLAINE, PAUL. La Trilogie érotique. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1907. Reprinted, Brussels, 1931. The original edition is rare. VILLIOT, JEAN DE. Camille et moi. — Paris: Charles Carrington, 1904. Translation of Frank and I. VILLIOT, JEAN DE. Dix-sept ans. — Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles Parisiens, Charles Carrington, 1905. Translation of Sweet Seventeen. VILLIOT, JEAN DE. La Flagellation amoureuse. — Paris: Charles Carrington. 1904. VILLIOT, JEAN DE. La Flagellation des femmes en Allemagne. — Paris: Charles Carrington. 1901. Translation of Nell in Bridewell. VILLIOT, JEAN DE. Volées de bois vert. — Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles Parisiens, Charles Carrington, 1905. (ANONYMOUS): Flèches de plomb. BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES. Les Fleurs du mal. BERANGER. Chansons érotiques. CHODER LOS DE LACLOS. Les Liaisons dangereuses. — Paris: 1908. GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. Lettre au Président. HARAUCOURT. Légende des sexes. — Paris, 1908. MICHELET, JULES. La Sorcière. — Paris, 1911.
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Hardcover volume 28.5 x 22.2 cm, bound in grey cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, olive endpapers, pictorial dust jacket [Washington square vista] with text and portrait of the authors to flaps, pp.: [i-viii] ix-xxi [xxii], [2] 3-208 [2], total 117 leaves, 205 photomechanical illustrations, limitation to last page: 1200 copies regular edition, 100 copies deluxe edition. Title-page: Armin Landeck | The Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints | Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged | June Kysilko Kraeft and Norman Kraeft | Southern Illinois University Press / Carbondale and Edwardsville || Contributors: Armin Landeck (American, 1905 – 1984) June Kysilko Kraeft Norman Kraeft
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Letterpress title-page, engraved title-page, and 10 sheets of collotype plates printed on india paper mounted on thick wove paper, with captioned guard sheets, loose in a vellum-backed cardboard portfolio with cloth-mounted flaps; floral diaper design inside throughout; bookseller's label to front board verso; limited edition of 550 copies of which this is copy № 103. Dimensions: 338 x 268 mm portfolio; 325 x 260 mm sheet, 225 x 195 mm image. Front board with lettering and vignette: GÖTTERLIEBSCHAFTEN | DAS MIT WINKENDEM HAUPT ICH GEWAHRET | {vignette} | {signature} | ARTUR WOLF / VERLAG WIEN || Letterpress title-page: FRANZ VON BAYROS | “GÖTTERLIEBSCHAFTEN” | ARTUR WOLF / VERLAG WIEN | 1914 || Verso to letterpress t.p. VERZEICHNIS DER TAFELN.
- Europa und der Stier
- Leda und die Schildkröte
- Sterope und Herkules
- Herodikos und die Turnerinnen
- Phoroneus und die Hirtin
- Minos und Persipeia
- Phryne und Mutter
- Pytalos und Demeter
- Kirke und die Ferkel
- Putiphar
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Two hardcover volumes 22.7 x 18.5 x 4.5 cm, uniformly bound in contemporary vellum with a blind border along the edges, handwritten title to spine, printed on laid paper with watermarks to ffls: “Leonard”, “ISRB”, and the arms of Amsterdam. Vol. 1: SPIEGEL van STAAT | des | VEREENIGDE | NEDERLANDS. | Waar in | De Macht en 't Vry Bestier, | Van yder der Zeven Verbonde PROVINCIEN en haar | byzondere Steeden, | Zo in Rechten als Regeeringen werd ontvouwd. | Aanwyzende | Aan, de In, en Uytheemschen, alle de Hooge en Lage Recht- | banken, Collegien en Ampten, dewelke in de zelve, tot | dienst van den Staat, en het Recht, zyn ingesteld. | Hoe, wanneer en waar, voor de zelve yets te verrichten is. | DOOR | Mr: ROMYN de HOOGHE. | EERSTE DEEL: | {fleuron} | t’ AMSTERDAM, | — | By JAN TEN HOORN, Boekverkooper 1706. Collation: 2ffl, *-**4, A-Z4 2A-Z4 3A-O4 4A-G4 5A-S4 6A-F4, 2ffl, (4G2 marked 3G2), total 372 leaves, plus 8 folded leaves of plates, t.p., and half-page vignette dedication by Romeyn de Hooghe. Pagination: [16], 1-267, 268-270 (marked 468-470) 271-480, [2] 3-55 [56], [2] 3-143 [144], [2] 3-44 [4], total 744 pages, ils. Vol. 2: SPIEGEL van STAAT. | VERVATTENDE | DE MACHT DER | GENERALITEYT. | De Edele Mogende Collegiën, | Hooge Rechtbaken, Steden, Schansen | en Onderhoorigheeden, | Welke van Hoog Mogende af angen. | DOOR | Mr: ROMYN de HOOGHE. | TWEEDE DEEL. | Met Figuuren. | {fleuron} | Te AMSTERDAM, | — | By JAN TEN HOORN, | Boekverkooper, 1707. Collation: 2ffl, *-**4, ***2, A-Z4 2A-T4, (A-Z)4, (2A-V)4 X2, 2ffl, total 352 leaves plus 9 folded leaves of plates, t.p., and half-page vignette dedication by Romeyn de Hooghe. Pagination: [20], 1-335 [336], 1-339 [340] [8], total 704 pages, ils. Contributors: Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch, 1645 – 1708) Jan ten Hoorn (Dutch, fl. 1671 – 1715)
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Hardcover, 20.2 x 15.5 cm, owner’s half blue morocco binding over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, extracts from La Revue Blanche, numbers 91 and 92 of March 15 and April 1 of 1897 (année VII, tome XII), publisher’s pink wrappers preserved, pp. [2] [1-5] 6-160. Ref.: Bridget Alsdorf. Vallotton, Fénéon, and the Legacy of the Commune in Fin-de-siècle France. Portraits: François [Quico] Merlin Colonel Merlin (French, 1814 – 1900) Adolphe Thiers (French, 1797 – 1877) Commandant Gaveau Fortuné Henry (French, 1821 – 1882) Otto von Bismarck (German, 1815 – 1898) Henri, comte de Chambord (French, 1820 – 1883) Louis Rossel (French, 1844 – 1871) François Huet Tranquille (French, 1842 – after 1879) Joseph Vinoy (French, 1803 – 1880) Raoul Rigault (French, 1846 – 1871) Eugène Varlin (French, 1839 – 1871) Théophile Ferré (French, 1845 – 1871) Georges Darboy (French, 1813 – 1871) Auguste Vermorel (French, 1841 – 1871) Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) Contributors: Félix Fénéon (French, 1861 – 1944) Félix Vallotton (French, 1865 – 1925) La Revue Blanche (Paris) Imprimerie Alcan-Lévy
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Hardcover volume, 28.6 x 22.4 cm, tan cloth over brown cloth boards, black lettering to spine, blind-stamped lettering in frame to front, in a black pictorial dust jacket, price unclipped; pp.: [1-ix] x-xi [xii blank], [1-4] 5-36 [4], 64 pages with 109 b/w plates, 12 pages with chronology, bibliography, credits; total 128 pp. Title-page: EDWARD HOPPER (in frame)| THE COMPLETE PRINTS | GAIL LEVIN | W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • NEW YORK • LONDON | IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE | WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART || Contributors: Gail Levin (American, b. 1948) – author. Edward Hopper (American, 1882 – 1967) – artist. W. W. Norton & Company (f. 1923) – publisher. Whitney Museum of American Art (NY) – publisher.
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Three hardcover volumes, in-12mo, 16.2 x 10.6 cm each, uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth over marbled boards, all margins marbled, gilt lettering to spine; plus an oblong volume of similar binding, 24.5 x 39.5 cm, with 88 engraved plates by Riepenhausen after Hogarth (83 pp, unnumbered). Catalogue raisonné of William Hogarth's engravings, published by Carl Armbruster in Vienna and Dieterichsche Buchhandlung in Göttingen. A detailed explanation of Hogarth's prints divided in 14 parts. Vol. 1.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Erste Lieferung. Wien, 1818. Bey Chr. Kaulfuß und C. Armbruster. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [i-v] vi-xxxvi, [1-3] 4-136, plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Zweite Lieferung. Wien, 1818. Bey Chr. Kaulfuß und C. Armbruster. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [i-iii] iv-viii [2] 11-207 [1 blank], plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Dritte Lieferung. Wien, 1818. Bey Chr. Kaulfuß und C. Armbruster. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [i-iii] iv-vi [3] 10-215 [1 blank], plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Vierte Lieferung. Wien, 1818. Bey Chr. Kaulfuß und C. Armbruster. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [1-5] 6-180 [1 blank], plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Fünste Lieferung. Wien, bey Carl Armbruster 1819. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [1-3] 4-144, plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Sechste Lieferung. Mit zufåßen nach den schriften der englischen Erflårer. Wien, bey Carl Armbruster 1819. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [i-iii] iv-x [2] 13-100, plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Siebente und achte Lieferung. Mit zufåßen nach den Schriften der englischen Erflårer. Wien, bey Carl Armbruster 1820. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [1-8] 9-191, plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten Copien derselben von Carl Rahl. Neunte und zehnte Lieferung. Mit zufåßen nach den Schriften der englischen Erflårer. Wien, bey Carl Armbruster 1823. Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß. [1-7] 8-168, plus engraved t.p.
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten aber vollständigen Copien derselben von E. Riepenhausen. Eilfte Lieferung mit zufåßen nach den schriften der englischen Erflårer. Göttingen in der Dieterichsche Buchhandlung 1809. [1-3] 4-81 [82 blank].
- C. G. Lichtenberg’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten aber vollständigen Copien derselben von E. Riepenhausen fortgefeßt vom Berausgeber der fechsten Lieferung mit Benußung der englischen Erflårer. Zwölfte Lieferung. Göttingen in der Dieterichsche Buchhandlung 1816. [i-iii] iv [1-3] 4-76.
- J. P. Lyser’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten aber vollständigen Copien derselben von E. Riepenhausen. Dreizehnte Lieferung Göttingen in der Dieterichsche Buchhandlung 1833. [i-v] vi-xii, [1-3] 4-117 [118].
- Dr. le Petit’s Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, mit verkleinerten aber vollständigen Copien derselben von E. Riepenhausen, Berausgeber Karl Gutzkow. Vierzehnte Lieferung. Göttingen in der Dieterichsche Buchhandlung 1835. [i-iii] iv-xvi, [1-3] 4-132.
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Three volumes, 33 x 26.5 x 7 cm each, uniformly bound in 2/3 vellum over marbled boards, outlined with gilt fillet, brown label with gilt lettering to flat spine with double fillet faux-bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, publisher’s wrappers preserved, incl. spine; collotype plates with captioned glassine guards; armorial bookplate of Comte Alain de Suzannet to front pastedown in each volume. Two volumes of Première partie, wanting, contain La vie artistique : texte and La vie artistique : planches. Title-page (red and black): JACQUES CALLOT | PAR | J. LIEURE | Introduction de F. Courboin | Conservateur du Cabinet des Estampes à la Bibliothèque Nationale | — | DEUXIÈME PARTIE | CATALOGUE DE L’ŒUVRE GRAVÉ | TOME I (II, III) | — | PARIS | ÉDITIONS DE LA GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS | 106, Boulevard Saint-Germain (6e) | 1924 (1927, 1927) || Vol. 1 (1924): [4] [1] 2-122 [2], wrappers, plates 1-299; printed on September 15, 1924, by André Lesot (Nemours) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Vol. 2 (1927): [4] [1] 2-106 [2], wrappers, plates 300-652. Vol. 3 (1927): [4] [1] 2-128 [4], wrappers, plates 653-1428; printed on September 5, 1926, by Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Contributors: Jules Lieure (French, 1866 – 1948) – author. Jacques Callot (French, c. 1592 – 1635) – artist. Gazette des Beaux-Arts (f. 1859) – publisher. François Courboin (French, 1865 – 1926) – author. D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris) – printer. Daniel Jacomet (French, 1894 – 1966) – printer. André Lesot (French, 1874-1951) – printer. Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) Comte Alain de Suzannet (French, 1882 – 1950) – provenance.
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Two volumes in owner’s uniform so called Jansenist binding by someone Alix (signed in gilt inside), gilt lettering to spine, each in a slipcase. Vol. 1: full crimson morocco 32.5 x 26 x 6.5 cm in a 33.3 x 27 x 7 cm slipcase, cloth endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher’s wrappers preserved, autographed drawing by Vertès to h.t. “à monsieur Willard | bien sympathiquement | Vertès | Paris 1930”. Collation: 3 blanks, front wrapper, 2 blanks, [10] h.t./limit., t.p., art., dedic., person., [2] 3-487 [488 blank], [2] coloph., 3 blanks, spine, 3 blanks; 74 dry-point illustrations by Marcel Vertès within collation; printed on thick wove paper by ‘Arches’ watermarked “Pausole & Vertès”. Title-page (red and black): LES AVENTURES | DU | ROI PAUSOLE | de | PIERRE LOUŸS | {vignette} | AUX DÉPENS D'UN AMATEUR | PARIS, MCMXXX || Limitation: CETTE ÉDITION DU ROMAN | DE |PIERRE LOUŸS | LES AVENTURES DU ROI PAUSOLE | A ÉTE COMPOSE EN CARACTÈRE GARAMOND DU CORPS 18 | ET IMPRIMEE SUR VÉLIN A LA FORME DES PAPETERIES | D' ARCHES FILIGRANÉ | PAUSOLE & VERTÈS | ELLE EST ILLUSTRÉE DE SOIXANTE-QUATORZE | POINTES-SÈCHES ORIGINALES | DE | VERTÈS | SON TIRAGE A ÉTÉ STRICTEMENT LIMITÉ A | QUATRE-VINGT-DIX-NEUF EXEMPLAIRES NUMÉROTÉS | DE 1 A 99 ET CONTENANT : | 1° LA SUITE DES CUIVRES AVEC REMAROUES. | 2° UNE SUITE DES 15 PLANCHES REFUSÉES. | IL A ÉTÉ TIRÉ EN OUTRE, POUR L' ARTISTE ET LES COLLABORATEURS, | QUELQUES EXEMPLAIRES NOMINATIFS, DONT DEUX IMPRIMÉS SUR PAPIER | CHIFFE D'AUVERGNE A LA MAIN | EXEMPLAIRE | № 9 || Colophon: Cet ouvrage, établi aux dépens de m. L. Givaudan, a été achevé d'imprimer le quinze novembre mil neuf cent trente, pour le texte, sur les presses de R. Coulouma, maitre imprimeur a Argenteuil, H. Barthélemy, directeur, et pour les pointes-sèches, dans les ateliers de «La Tradition", a Paris. Limited edition of 99 copies, this is copy № 9. Vol. 2: Three-quarters crimson morocco over cloth outlined gilt, 32.7 x 27.8 x 4 cm in a 33.3 x 28.2 x 4.3 cm slipcase, cloth endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on thick wove paper by ‘Arches’ watermarked “Pausole & Vertès”. Collation: 3 blanks, 74 unpaginated leaves of plates (main suite avec remarque), blank, 15 leaves of plates (refusées), t.p./limit., blank, 30 leaves of plates (15 prints in two states each, with and without ‘remarks’) titled Au pays du Roi Pausole, 3 blanks. Title-page (red and black): AU PAYS | DU | ROI PAUSOLE | Quinze cuivres | gravés par un artiste | inconnu | de la suite | du Roi | ❦ | —| TRYPHÈME. MCMXXX. || Limitation: IL A ÉTÉ TIRÉDE CETTE SUITE | DE POINTES-SÈCHES VINGT- | CINQ EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉ- | LIN A LA FORME DES PAPETE- | RIES ARCHES AU FILIGRANE | DE PAUSOLE. CES SUITES NON | MISES DANS LE COMMERCE | SONT RÉSERVÉES A SA MAJES- | TÉ, AUX REINES PRÉFÉRÉES | PARMI LL. AA. RR. ET A QUEL- | QUES FIDÈLES SERVITEURS. | № 13 || Limited edition of 25 copies, this is copy № 13; Enriched with an original copper plate with one of the illustrations. Marcel Willard (French, – provenance. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (III) 1057; Nordmann (II) № 307; Vokaer 26. Ref.: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Léon Givaudan (French, 1875 – 1936) – publisher. Seller's description:Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. Paris, Aux dépens d'un amateur, 1930. 2 volumes in-4, maroquin rouge janséniste, tranches dorée, couverture et dos, emboîtage. Le volume de suites est relié en demi-maroquin rouge. (Alix). Ouvrage illustré de 74 pointes-sèches de Marcel Vertès. Tirage à 99 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches, comportant la suite des cuivres avec remarque, ainsi qu'une suite des 15 planches refusées. Exemplaire enrichi d'une plaque de cuivre ayant servi à une des illustrations, d'un dessin avec envoi autographe signé de l'artiste sur la page de faux-titre et d'une double suite des 15 pointes-sèches par un artiste inconnu intitulée Au Pays du roi Pausole. Dos légèrement passés.
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Portfolio 265 x 225 mm, black half-buckram over diapered cardboard with flaps, black with gilt lettering in frame to front “R. KELLER | MÄRCHEN”, t.p. printed on wave paper, the folder and engravings printed on laid paper, 10 loose plates, 240 x 210 mm sheet, 135 x 110-115 mm plate; re-issue of ten plates of the first edition of 16 plates published in Austria in c. 1910s. Title-page: EROTISCHE | MÄRCHEN | 10 RADIERUNGEN | VON | RUDOLF KELLER | PRIVATDRUCK 1919 || Die Mappe enthält folgende originalradierungen: 1. Aschenbrödel; 2. Dornröschen; 3. Zwerg Nase; 4. Froschkönig; 5. Der gestiefelte Kater; 6. Hänsel und Gretel; 7. Der fliegende Koffer; 8. Schneewittchen mit den 7 Zwergen; 9. Die kleine Seejungfer; 10. Der kleine Daumling Dieses Werk wurde in einer einmaligen Auflage von 250 numerierten Exemplaren hergestellt und darf nur an Gelehrte und Sammler abgegeben werden. Die Platten wurden vernichtet. Nr. 1—50 sind vom Künstler signierte Vorzugsdrucke. Dieses Exemplar erhielt Nr. 0153. Translation: The folder contains the following original etchings: 1. Cinderella; 2. Sleeping Beauty; 3. Dwarf nose; 4. The Frog Prince; 5. Puss in Boots; 6. Hansel and Gretel; 7. The Flying Trunk; 8. Snow White with the Seven Dwarfs; 9. The Little Mermaid; 10. Little Thumbling. This work was produced in a one-time edition of 250 numbered copies and may only be sold to scholars and collectors. The copperplates were destroyed. Nos. 1-50 are special prints signed by the artist. This copy was given number 0153. Seller's description: Erotische Märchen. S.l., Privatdruck, 1919. In-8, en feuilles, sous chemise demi-chagrin vert recouverte de papier japonais. Recueil de 10 eaux-fortes originales de Rudolf Keller. Ces eaux-fortes érotiques dans les teintes brunes s'inspirent des contes de fées traditionnels comme Cendrillon, La Belle au bois dormant, Hansel et Gretel, Blanche-Neige, Le Petit Poucet etc. Tirage à 250 exemplaires. Chemise défraîchie. Jacob Grimm (German; 1785 – 1863) Wilhelm Grimm (German, 1786 – 1859) Charles Perrault (French, 1628 – 1703) Hans Christian Andersen (Danish, 1805 – 1875)
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Two hardcover volumes, 17 x 11.5 cm, collated in-8vo, uniformly bound in dark grey mottled calf bordered with gilt fillet, flat spine with gilt lettering in compartments outlined in gilt; top edge gilt, text and plates printed on dense wove paper (Japanpapier). Privately printed by Gustav Röttig & Sohn (Ödenburg) in 800 copies, of which this is copy № 16, signed by von Bayros in 1st vol. Each volume is illustrated with four heliogravures (title-page and three plates) after drawings by Franz von Bayros. According to the seller, this is one of only 35 copies of the deluxe edition on Japanpapier, a fact which was mentioned by the bibliographers but not in the imprint. Bookplate to front pastedown in each volume, lettering to bottom “Ex libris Dr. phil. Rudolf Ludwig”, 120 x 100 mm, heliogravure after von Bayros. Pp.: vol. 1 [4] 1-198 plus engraved t.p. and 3 plates. Vol. 2: 1-204 [2] plus engraved t.p. and 3 plates. Title-page: DIE MEMOIREN | DER | FANNY HILL | VON | JOHN CLELAND | ESTER (ZWEITER) BAND | PAPHOS IM JAHR DER | CYTHERE | MDCCCCVI || Author of the text: John Cleland (British, c. 1709 – 1789). Translator: Franz Blei [Dr. Erich Feldhammer] (Austrian, 1871 – 1942). Illustrator: Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924). Provenance: Dr. Phil. Rudolf Ludwig. Catalogue raisonné: The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros. — New York: Cythera Press, 1968. The Beautiful Maiden of Pao, pp. 31-38. Seller's Description: Erster [und] Zweiter Band. Paphos [Wien, C. W. Stern], im Jahr der Cythere 1906. Mit sechs Tafeln und zwei illustrierten Titeln nach Franz von Bayros, alle zweifarbig. Grau marmorierte Originalkalblederbände mit Rücken-, Deckelkanten- und Kopfschnittvergoldung. Privatdruck. – Eins von 35 Exemplaren der Luxusausgabe auf Japanpapier, im Druckvermerk von Band I von Bayros signiert. – Die Übersetzung stammt von Franz Blei, der hier unter dem Pseudonym Dr. Erich Feldhammer genannt wird. Als Textvorlage diente die Ausgabe London 1749. – Gedruckt wurde bei Gustav Röttig & Sohn in Ödenburg. – Sehr seltene Vorzugsausgabe, die zwar bei den Bibliographen, nicht aber im Druckvermerk genannt wurde. – Fast tadellos. – »Dieses Werk ist eines der berühmtesten in der erotischen Literatur« (Stern-Szana). Nach Hinweis bei Brettschneider wurde die Auflage beschlagnahmt. – Exlibris Dr. phil. Rudolf Ludwig, Wien (Heliogravüre nach Zeichnung von Franz von Bayros, Brettschneider 156) in beiden Bänden. 17 : 11,5 cm. [4], 198, [2], [4], 204, [2] Seiten. Zusammen 8 Tafeln. Brettschneider 38. – Hayn/Gotendorf I, 618. – Stern-Szana 243 und ausführlich S. 222ff
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Hardcover volume, 38.3 x 26 x 3.8 cm, pictorial boards, lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [1-6] 7-421 [3], ils. Title-page: Cesare Leonardi Franca Stagi | THE ARCHITECTURE | OF TREES | Introduction to the new edition | ANDREA CAVANI, GIULIO ORSINI | Translated from the Italian by | NATALIE DANFORD | Princeton Architectural Press | New York || Cesare Leonardi (Italian, 1935 – 2021) Franca Stagi (Italian, 1937 – 2008) Natalie Danford (American, b. 1968)
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Hardcover volume, 25.3 x 19.3 cm, green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1 blank] [i-viii] ix-xxiii [xxiv blank] [2] 3-297 [298 blank] [8 blanks], 26 plates, unpaginated. MS inscription in black ink to ffl “David Tatham 1969”. Title-page: The World of | HOGARTH | Lichtenberg's Commentaries | on Hogarth's Engravings | TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN | AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | INNES AND GUSTAV HERDAN | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON | The Riverside Press Cambridge | 1966 || Illustrations: A Harlot's Progress; Marriage-à-la-Mode; Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn; A Midnight Modern Conversation or The Bacchanalians; A Rake's Progress; The Four Times of the Day: Morning, Noon, Evening, Night. Edition: First printing w; Printed in the United States of America. Provenance (possibly): David Tatham (American, 1932 – 2023) Contributors: George Christoph Lichtenberg (German, 1743 – 1799) Innes Herdan (British, 1911 – ?) Gustav Herdan (German, 1897 – 1968) William Hogarth (British, 1697 – 1764)
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Hardcover volume, 17 x 12.5 cm, bound in lilac cardboard, lettering to covers and spine, vignette by Boris Rybchenkov to front board; pp.: [1-4] 5-188 [4]. Pencil ms to h.t. "Самалюк | Рай Кунцевское | Зав. роно" (Самалюк, зав. кунцевским районным отделом народного образования)ю Title-page: И. Г. МАЛЕЕВ | ГОРОЖАНЕ | МОСКОВСКОЕ | ТОВАРИЩЕСТВО | ПИСАТЕЛЕЙ || Print run: 5,200 copies. Contributors: Малеев, Игорь Александрович (Russian, 1904 – 1936?) – author. [Igor Maleyev] Рыбченков, Борис Федорович (Russian, 1899 – 1994) – artist. [Boris Rybchenkov]
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Hardcover volume, collated 18mo, 130 x 85 mm (2 parts in one). Contemporary burgundy morocco outlined with gilt triple fillet, flat spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle, text printed on slightly blue laid paper with illegible watermark; dark blue endpapers, Tony Fekete (T. F.) bookplate by Wahorn to front pastedown. Frontispiece and 14 engraved plates by Elluin after Borel, with guard tissue. Graphite ms to h.t.: "Figures de Borrel. | Gravées pr. Elluin." Title-page: NOUVELLE TRADUCTION | DE | WOMAN OF PLEASUR, | OU | FILLE DE JOIE. | PAR M. CLELAND, | CONTENANT les Mémoires | de Mademoiselle FANNY, | écrits par elle – même. | AVEC FIGURES | — | PREMIERE (SECONDE) PARTIE. | — | ~ | A LONDRES; | Chez G. FENTON, dans le Strand; | — | M. DCC. LXXVI. || Collation: 18mo throughout A-O12/6, total 126 leaves plus 15 plates, incl. frontispiece. Pagination: separate for each part [1-5] 6-119 [120 blank], [1-3] 4-132, total 252 pages. Provenance: Tony Fekete (Christie’s 2014, № 54, p. 37; Price realized GBP 11,875): “[CLELAND, John (1709-1789).] Nouvelle traduction de Woman of Pleasur [sic] ou Fille de Joie. Contenant les Mémoires de Mademoiselle Fanny, écrits par elle-même. London [but Paris]: G. Fenton [Cazin], 1776. 2 volumes in one, duodecimo (128 x 80 mm). Printed on blue tinted paper. Frontispiece and 14 engraved plates on thick white paper by Elluin after Borel. (Short tear repaired in the margin of one plate, another plate with a faint dampstain touching the facing leaf of text.) Contemporary burgundy morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, morocco label gilt, covers with a gilt triple fillet border, gilt edges, blue endpapers. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 18TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED EROTIC NOVEL. An excellent copy bound in contemporary morocco. It is the second translation into French, but the first to include the exquisite plates by Elluin after Borel. These are some of the best illustrations by this remarkable partnership responsible for a number of important 18th-century libertine texts. Cohen-DeRicci 242-3; Dutel A-407 ; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 304; Pia Enfer, 915.” Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (I) A-407, p. 134; Cohen-DeRicci 242-3; Fekete (Christie's) 54, p. 37. Contributors: John Cleland (British, c. 1709 – 1789). François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – c. 1822) Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810) Hubert-Martin Cazin (French, 1724 – 1795) András Wahorn (Hungarian, b. 1953) Fekete, Tony Laszlo (Hungarian, b. 1972)
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Hardcover volume, 12mo, 125 x 85 mm, two parts in one, bound and gilded by Cuzin and Maillard, respectively, between 1876 and 1881, in crimson crushed morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle, signed 'Cuzin' to foot of front turn-in and 'Maillard dor.' to rear. Adorned with engraved frontispiece and 12 plates by Elluin after Borel. Text printed on a slightly bluish paper. Title-page: LE | MEURSIUS FRANÇOIS, | OU | ENTRETIENS GALANS | D'ALOYSIA. | ORNÉ | DE FIGURES. | — | TOME PREMIER (SECOND) | — | ✵ | A CYTHERE | — | M. DCC. LXXXII. || Collation: 12mo, π4 (2 blanks) A-Z6 χ1,+ π2 A-S6 (4 blanks) χ1, total 254 leaves; pagination: [8] [1] 2-277 [278 blank], [4] [1] 2-210 [8 blanks], total 508 pages, plus 13 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 240; Eros invaincu 17; Fekete 51; Nordmann (I) 91. Contributors: Nicolas Chorier (French, 1612 – 1692) – author. Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810) – artist. François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – c. 1822) – engraver. Hubert-Martin Cazin (French, 1724 – 1795) – publisher. Francisque Cuzin (French, 1836 – 1890) – bookbinder. Seller’s description: Erotica.- [Chorier (Nicolas)]Le Meursius François, ou Entretiens galans d'Aloysia, 2 parts in 1, half-title to each part, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates [by Elluin after Borel], handsomely bound in crimson crushed morocco by Cuzin, spine with gilt lettering and five raised bands, gilt tooled turn-ins by Maillard, signed 'Cuzin' to foot of front turn-in and 'Maillard dor.' to rear, marbled endpapers, g.e., fractional rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy, 12mo, Cythere [but Paris], [Cazin], 1782.
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Hardcover volume, 311 x 235 mm, bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, olive endpapers, pictorial dust jacket with text to flaps, pp.: [i-xi] xii-xvi, [1] 2-245 [246 blank], plus 19 leaves of plates and 4 leaves of captions, extraneous to collation (169 leaves total). Title-page: MARBLED | PAPER | ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, | AND PATTERNS | With Special Reference to the Relationship of | Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and | the Western World | RICHARD J. WOLFE {publisher’s device} | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS | Philadelphia || Imprint: Copyright © 1990 by the University of Pennsylvania Press | All rights reserved | Printed in Japan | Second printing 1991 || Frontispiece: A Publication of the | A. S. W. ROSENBACH FELLOWSHIP | IN BIBLIOGRAPHY || Wolfe, Richard J. (American, 1928 – 2017)
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Hardcover volume, 31 x 23.5 cm, peach cloth, with peach lettering to the green label on front board, green lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, price unclipped ($4.95); text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-154 [155 plate] [5 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions); magazine clipping laid in. Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} | NEW YORK • THE VIKING PRESS || Imprint: COPYRIGHT © 1956 BY ANDREW LOOMIS | FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS IN JANUARY 1956 | PUBLISHED ON THE SAME DAY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA | BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED | SECOND PRINTING 1958 | {two paragraphs of copyright statement} | LITHOGRAPHED IN U.S.A, BY W. S. KONECKY ASSOCIATES || Edition: 1st edition, 2nd printing. Andrew Loomis (American, 1892 – 1959)
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Cardboard box 32 x 23.7 cm with lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine, and Loomis facsimile and Titan publisher's barcode label to back.
- Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} ||
- Title-page: FIGURE DRAWING | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH | ANDREW LOOMIS ||
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Hardcover volume, 20.2 x 14.5 cm, aubergine cloth, gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spine, aubergine top edge, aubergine dust jacket with gilt lettering and black fleuron to front, gilt lettering and black fleuron and publisher’s device to spine, and a captioned photographic portrait to back, blurb text to flaps, price ”35s net | in U.K. only” unclipped; pictorial endpapers. Pp.: [1-8] 9-445 [446] [2], collation: A-O16, total 224 leaves. Title-page (in oval frame): JOHN FOWLES | THE | FRENCH | LIEUTENANT'S | WOMAN | — | Every emancipation is a restoration of the human | world and of human relationships to man himself. | MARX, Zur Judenfrage (1844) | JONATHAN CAPE | THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE | LONDON || Contributors: John Fowles (British, 1926 – 2005) – author. Herbert Jonathan Cape (British, 1879 – 1960) – publisher. Ebenezer Baylis & Son, Ltd. (f. 1858) – printer. The Trinity Press – printer.
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Hardcover, 19 x 13.8 cm, crimson buckram with tan paper label with lettering to spine; printed on laid paper; pp.: ffl [i-vi] vii-x] 11-184, collation 8vo, 1-118 124, total 92 leaves. Title-page: AMERICAN ENGRAVERS | AND | THEIR WORKS | BY | W. S. BAKER | Collige et inscribe | PHILADELPHIA | GEBBIE & BARRIE PUBLISHERS | 1875 || Motto: Collige et inscribe [Collect and record, lat.] Contributors: William Spohn Baker (American, 1824 – 1897) – author. George Gebbie (American, 1832 – 1892) – publisher. George Barrie (American, 1843 – 1918) – publisher. George R. Bonfield (British-American, 1802 – 1898) – dedicatee.
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Hardcover, 22.2 x 14.6 cm, quarter black cloth, pictorial boards, lettering to spine; pp.: [2] 3-253 [3], collated 8vo: 1-168, total 128 leaves plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: Дж. Д. СЭЛИНДЖЕР | ПОВЕСТИ | НАД ПРОПАСТЬЮ | ВО РЖИ | ВЫШЕ СТРОПИЛА, | ПЛОТНИКИ | РАССКАЗЫ | ХОРОШО ЛОВИТСЯ | РЫБКА-БАНАНКА | ЧЕЛОВЕК, КОТОРЫЙ | СМЕЯЛСЯ | ГОЛУБОЙ ПЕРИОД | ДЕ ДОМЬЕ-СМИТА | ЛАПА-РАСТЯПА | ПЕРЕВОД С АНГЛИЙСКОГО | И ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ | Р. РАЙТ-КОВАЛЕВОЙ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЦК ВЛКСМ | «МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ», 1965 || T.p. verso: […] J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | Raise high the Roof Beam, Carpenters | A Perfect Day for Bananafish | The Laughing Man | De Daumier — Smith’s Blue Period | Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut | Художник Б. Жутовский | (В оформлении использован фрагмент картины | американского художника Э. Уайеса) || Print run: 115,000 copies. Contributors: [Джером Дэвид Сэлинджер] Jerome David Salinger (American, 1919 – 2010) Райт-Ковалёва, Рита [Черномордик, Раиса Яковлевна] (Russian, 1898 – 1988) Жутовский, Борис Иосифович (Russian, 1932 – 2023) «Э. Уайес» – [Эндрю Уайет] Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917 – 2009)